Consider an espresso stand with a single baristro.Customers arrive at the rate of 20 per hour according to a Poisson distribution.Service times are exponentially distributed with a mean service time of 2 minutes per customer.What is the service rate per hour for the espresso stand?
A)30 customers
B)20 customers
C)15 customers
D)2 customers

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The mean service time is 2 minutes per customer, which means the barista can serve 30 customers per hour (60 minutes / 2 minutes per customer = 30 customers per hour).

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